Security Concerns Slowing Cloud Rollouts
Security remains the greatest barrier to cloud adoption as more mobile applications are hosted by outside software and infrastructure service providers, according to a new survey. The vendor poll ...Full Article
Cloud Security Attracting More Investors
As more data, enterprise applications and other workloads move to public clouds, greater attention and investment are going into cloud security as a way to protect data while managing ...Full Article
Data Encryption in the Cloud Falls Short
As more data and enterprise applications are moved to public cloud services, a surprisingly high number of enterprises responding to a new cloud security survey said they are not ...Full Article
Industrial IoT Framework Targets Security
The brick and mortar of an industrial Internet of Things is arriving with a security framework designed to balance the safety and reliability requirements of industrial operations with an ...Full Article
Survey: Cyber Complacency Growing
Despite an alarming increase in the frequency and severity of cyber attacks, enterprises large and small claim they are doing enough to mitigate the effects of a data breach. ...Full Article
U.S. Announces First Cyber Chief
A retired Air Force General has been tapped to be the nation's first chief information security officer, the Obama administration announced this week. Retired Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill previously ...Full Article
Japan Touts Adjustable Crypto for IoT, Cloud
Japanese engineers claimed to have developed the first secure "cryptoprocessor" able to adjust security levels on the fly without first upgrading the device itself. Previously, the researchers noted, encryption ...Full Article
Blockchains Unlocked to Boost IoT Interoperability
In a step towards greater interoperability for the Internet of Things, a Bay Area company has launched a platform that allows chipmakers to register Bluetooth and other network-enabled chips ...Full Article
Survey: Security Risks Soar Along With Cloud Workloads
The shift from traditional datacenters to cloud infrastructure is exponentially expanding server workloads, thereby increasing enterprises' "attackable surface area" and, with it, security risks, a new vendor survey warns. ...Full Article
Blockchain VC Funding Grows With Deployments
Blockchain and other "crypto-currency" technologies are gathering momentum as investors continue to pour money into digital transaction approaches while banks shift from pilot projects to production deployments. According to ...Full Article